Isao Kato: This Life Is the Dream. When We Die, We Wake Up.
A Japanese corporate executive walked away with no plan, sat in one ceremony, felt almost nothing, and then found himself surrounded by roughly thirty dead spirits. Thirteen years later he does entity extraction for clients around the world, without a single plant medicine, and talks about death like a man describing his commute.
Frances Carrington: He Walked Into the Room, and He Was the Room
Thirty years of Vipassana. Eighteen years in India. Three meetings with the Dalai Lama. A childhood in a house where the poltergeist threw paintings off the wall. Frances Carrington on what shamanism actually is, and why the practitioner never interprets your experience for you.